The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
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Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus. * 1. Braiding Sweetgrass:
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus.
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1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
2. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
3. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
4. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
5. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
6. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
7. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright)
8. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
9. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)
10. The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government by Barbara McQuade (Seven Stories Press)
11. Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were) by Eve Babitz (NYRB)
12. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
13. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
14. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
15. A Queer History of the United States: Revised And Expanded (ReVisioning History) by Michael Bronski
16. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn (W. W. Norton)
17. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)
18. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
19. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
20. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
21. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
22. Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers (Applewood Books)
23. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records
24. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
25. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
26. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
27. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
28. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
29. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
30. On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University)
31. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge (The Experiment)
32. On Democracy by Walt Whitman (Library of America)
33. How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! by Danny Caine (Microcosm Publishing)
34. Another Kind of Freedom by Pema Chodron (Shambhala)
35. How to Focus (Mindfulness Essentials #9) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
36. I’m Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying by Charlie James, Paige Tompkins (Illus.) (Quirk Books)
37. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (Oni Press)
38. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
39. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Liveright)
40. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
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